long thought that the Soviet Union can not rob a bank.No, small savings bank robbed, of course, but to the State Bank!It is 36 years ago, August 5, 1977 (it was a Friday night and two days left), from a closed repository of the State Bank of the Armenian SSR are not thieves stole one million five hundred twenty-five thousand rubles - the incredible sum in those days.
beginning was the word.Rather gunner named Zaven.It was he who told the cousins Kalachyanami - Nikolai and Felix, that the State Bank of the Armenian SSR store money is not in the basement and on the second floor.Its walls and doors armored, but the ceiling is common, concrete slab.And above it, on the third floor, there is dayroom.Internal security in the bank is not - that she is there to do when everything is closed and is under the alarm?Two walls of the State Bank faces the street, and as the courtyard, guarded by "Ghost Patrol" militia.But the fourth wall adjoining a house, and if contrive, you can jump across the street from the roof of the house through the window of the third floor of the bank.
Here is a list of things with which it was accomplished the abduction of a backpack, flashlight, gloves, rope, brace, half a dozen drills pobeditovymi lugs, collapsible scrap, chisel, hammer, saw several canvases, three bottles of water, and children's umbrella.What water and children's umbrella, you may ask.And here is why.
Umbrella was tied to the leg, to chunks of concrete fell silent.Only the safe in the store was not - the money was simply folded into the slot.In one case went Kalachyan Felix, who had extraordinary strength and flexibility.Make a dangerous acrobatic leap from the roof of the house next door to the window, Felix was on the third floor of the bank.There he drilled, prodolbil propylene reinforcement concrete hole diameter of 30 centimeters, which has managed to climb and then climb back with a backpack of money.And the water was needed thief to drill ostuzhivat that when working with concrete quickly escalated.And hot in Yerevan in August, even at night.
all the stolen money was in large denominations, including one hundred and ten packs of brand new hundred-ruble notes a series of "AI".Brothers Kalachyan well aware that across the country declared wanted these bills, and decided to swap parts of their bonds three percent of the loan.For this Kalachyan first we went to Tashkent, and then to Moscow.In Moscow, cute and cash Nicholas quickly got acquainted with a girl Lyudmila and her brother Vladimir Kuznetsov.As Vladimir was a "person of Slavic origin," Nikolai said that he won at cards large sum of money and asked the brother of his mistress to exchange its bonds in small pieces.
Vladimir Kuznetsov quickly tired of running around the savings banks with small sums, and he decided to exchange six thousand rubles at a time.At the cashier's savings bank, where he was converted, the bonds were only three thousand, the cashier handed over to the client, and asked to wait as long as it does not bring out the main cash the remaining amount.There she paused to swing with her friend.And Vladimir "panicked" and fled, leaving the savings bank and three thousand rubles.The cashier told about the incident to the police (although quietly could keep the money), and it quickly established that these hundred-ruble note series "AI" stolen from the State Bank of the Armenian SSR.Unfortunately for the brothers Kalachyan, cashier turned out great physiognomist, and her words forensic artist wrote a good portrait of the "money fugitive."Vladimir had a criminal record, and he was in the circle of suspects.Police quickly found out that his sister's lover Armenian from Yerevan, and the rest was a matter of technique - in the night of 6 to 7 June 1978, Vladimir Kuznetsov, Nikolai and Felix Kalachyan were arrested.
cousin Nikolai and Felix Kalachyan was 27 years old when in 1979 they were sentenced to death.The Union, which were shot for stealing ten thousand rubles, against those who stole half a million, it is not surprising.But Armenia has "difficult" Republic, and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian SSR Babken Sarkisov wrote in a letter to the USSR Supreme Soviet to pardon criminals.In it he rested on the young brothers and the fact that their fathers had no other sons, and therefore born in Armenia Kalachyan interrupted.This Babken Sarkisov was both deputy chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and the Supreme Soviet could not give up one of their leaders.But when came to Yerevan decree pardoning Kalachyanov, brothers death sentence has already been carried out.The document was late by only twenty-four hours ...
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